Great Depression
Established to relieve unemployment during the Great Depression by providing national conservation work primarily for young unmarried men.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
Why were the New Deals created?
End the great depression.
Radio broadcasts made by Roosevelt to the Americans
What were Fireside Chats?
demand by a broker that investors pay back loans made for stocks purchased on margin
What is a Margin Call?
“Shantytowns” - homeless communities throughout the US. Name places individuals circumstances squarely on President Hoover
What are Hoovervilles?
Designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses, the Government bought livestock for slaughter and paid farmers subsidies not to plant part of their land. It was struck down and declared unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court.
What is the AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Administration)?
March 9 and June 16, 1933, when Congress passed 15 major acts to meet the economic crisis of the Depression
What are the First 100 days?
The three R's of new deal.
What is relief, reform, recovery?
Making investments in hope that prices will go up, yielding a quick windfall
What is Speculation?
Mainly caused the Great Depression.
What is the stock market crash
An agency created in 1933 that monitors the stock market and enforces laws regulating the sale of stocks and bonds
What is the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC)?
This person believed the New Deal was not sufficient at addressing uneven distribution of wealth
Who is Huey Long?
Most active member in bringing women and minorities in Democratic Coalition
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
What is Bull Market?
Returning one to his or her country of origin
Restored and maintained confidence in the banking system
What is the FDIC?
ensure unions had the right to organize and bargain collectively
What is the Wagner Act?
The first featured length animated film?
What was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
persistent and heavy demands by a bank’s depositors, creditors, or customers to withdraw money
What is Bank Run?
October 29, 1929 when the stock market took its deepest dive was nicknamed this.
What is Black Tuesday?
1934 law that set up a pension system for retirees beginning at age 65; set up federal-state system of unemployment insurance and care for dependent mothers and children, the handicapped, and public health
What is the SSA (Social Security Act)?
Judiciary Reorganization Act - wanted to increase the number of justices from 9 to 15 so that he could appoint justices that would approve of his ND Legislation. This violated the Constitution by threatening the principle of separation of powers
What is Court Packing?
Angry WW1 veterans showed up in Washington DC demanding their bonuses promised to them years earlier. Hoover has the army forcibly remove the veterans (not a good look).
What is the Bonus Army?
Buying stock with mostly borrowed money
What is buying on margin?